We practiced windtunneling on the Creativity Cruise. If you haven’t windtunneled to solve a problem or create opportunity, you MUST experience it. It is SUPERCOOL.
I typically hold my thoughts inside as I’m working on an opportunity or problem, but for this I had to talk 11 minutes straight to solve the problem. When I ran out of things to say I had to continue talking so my note taker didn’t know I was out of things to say (yes, someone had to take notes on my running monologue, and thank goodness she has fast, neat writing skills).
I just started pulling at straws for this and amazingly it was all connected and I really solved 2 problems or, more specifically, created actions for 2 opportunities. To me a problem is just an opportunity that has become more urgent or more important at a point in time.
What is so SUPERCOOL about this? I immediately started acting (almost unaware) on my new verbally discovered steps. This is because I internalized as soon as we debriefed the 11 minute talk. My recording partner and I shared what was MOST interesting in the talk, 3 things each. She even drew me a little model from her note-taking. Yes, it is good to have a superior note taker but not required, others had big things happen too.
We, the Creativity Cruise participants, all windtunneled so well that the next day we could not disembark on Half Moon Cay via tender boat due to wind. Hmmmm.
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